Grave filler



March 9 1926.

W. KRONSBEIN GRAVE FILLER Filed Dec. 18, 1924 2 Sheets-5heet 1 INVENTORWILHEZM KRONSBE/l/ ATTORNEY March 9 1926. 1,576,336

W. KRONSBEIN GRAVE FILLER Filed DEC. 18, 1924 'INVENTOR mursm IKRO/VSBEWATTORNEY Patented Mar. 9, 1926.

PATENT orrlce.

WILHELM KRONSBEIN, OFYCAMPBELL HILL, ILLINOIS.

GRAVE FILLER.

Application filed December 18, 1924. Serial No. 756,790.

To all whom it may concern: 9 I

Be it known that I, WILHELM KRoNsBnIN, a citizen of the United States,residing'at Campbell Hill, in the county of Jackson and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in GraveFillers, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadto the accompanying drawlngs.

This invention relates to machines for filling graves or doing work oflike character, and particularly to a device of this character whereinthere is a dumping bodyor con tainer adapted to hold the earth andpivotal- 1y mounted upon a wheeled support or truck so that the body maybe tipped to thereby discharge the earth into the grave.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a device of thischaracter which will I provide means for filling a grave quickly andefficiently and so constructed that it may be drawn from one grave'toanother.

A further object is to provide means whereby any desired amount of earthmay be discharged from the body into the grave.

A still further object is to provide a device of this character in whicha screw is used for raising the forward end of the dumping body tothereby discharge'the last bit of earth from this body.- y I Anotherobjectis to provide a device of this character in which a series ofgates are provided at the discharge or rear end of the dumping body,these gates being so arranged that they may be lifted one by one todischarge a certain quantity of earth from the dumping body.-

Still another object is to provide improved means for raising orlowering theumping body, this means permitting the tiltlng thereof andsecurlng relatively great power with a relatively small expenditure ofenergy. I

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein 1-Figure 1 is a top plan view of my grave filler;

Figure'2 is a side elevation thereof;

Figure 3 isa fragmentary rear elevation of the body showing indotted'li'nes the manner in which the end gates are raised;

Figure 4 is a top plan view of the supporting base for the body; I

Figure 5 is a rear elevation of the front rolleror wheel and itsmounting;

Figure 6 is a top plan view thereof;

cart.

Figure 7 is a bottom view of the housing I for the work gear;

Figure 8 is a top view of the pillar block upon which the worm and gearhousing swivels;

Figure 9 1s an elevation of the combined I of Figure 10;

Figure 12 is an elevation of the worm and worm wheel. Referring to thesedrawings, and particularly to Figures 1 and 2, it will be seen thatmy'construction providesa truck, designated generally 10, and a bodyresting upon the truck. The truck has a front wheel 11 supported in abearing bracket 12 having a forward extension 13 within which a handlelet is pivoted, this bearingbracket having an upwardly extendingtrunnion 15 which engages in a suitable opening in the'Vshaped frame 16constituting the main member of the truck, this member 16 having itsapex disposed forwardly and having a, central opening 16 at its forwardend into which the upwardly projecting trunnion 15 engages so that thebearing bracket 12 will oscillate on said trunnion and thus guide truck.

Mounted upon the rear end of thetruck 10 are two brackets 19, eachhavingspaced ears,

The body of the truck is supported by'means of a member 20. Mounted uponthis iron is the body 21. I This body is slightly flaring toward itsrear end and has a rounded front end and side walls, 22. Normally thesupporting member 20 is disposed as illustrated in Figure 2, incliningdownward and rearward, and the rear ends of the walls 22 extend upwardand rearward. The forward end of the supporting member 20 has an opening23 for the passage of the elevating screw 24:, as will be later stated,which op crates to raise and lower the forward end of the body 21. Itwill be obvious that when theforward end of the body is raised that theearth will be discharged from the rear end of the body after the mannerof a dump Mounted upon the side Walls are the angular supporting irons25 which project out beyond the edges of the side walls and extendupward so as to form supporting hooks, and coacting with these hooks area series of end gates 26, as illustrated in Figure 3, these end gatesbeing provided at one end with trunnions 27 and at the 0pposite end withcombined trunnions and handles 28. These trunnions are seated within thehook-shaped irons 25, as illustrated in Figure 2, and each end gate isrelatively narrow but has a width equal to the width of the body 21, buteach end gate is sufliciently wide so that it extends down behind theend gate below, while the lowermost end gate extends downward behind apair of cleats mounted upon the body and extending upward slightly abovethe bottom thereof.

As illustrated in Figure 3, when it is desired to dump a certain portionof earth out of the body, the uppermost en'd gate 26 may be raised, asshown in dotted lines, and a certain portion of earth will fall into thegrave. If it be desiredto do so, of course, the lowermost end gate maybe raised to discharge a certain amount of earth, but it is designedthat the top end gate shall be raised first and a certain amount ofearth discharged and then the second end gate, etc. After these endgates are all raised and the earth which was held by them has beendumped into the grave, the forward end of the body is raised by thescrew 24 and thisallows the remaining earth to be discharged gently andgradually into the grave.

The means for raising the forward end of the body comprises the screw24, as previously stated, Mounted upon the under face of the member 20at the forward end thereof is a pillar block 29 which is attached bybolts or other suitable means to the member 20and which has thedownwardly depending ears 30. This member 29 is provided with an opening31 in its center .through which the screw 24 is adapted to pass.Coacting with. this pillar block 29 is a supporting member 32 having acentral opening 33 in its top and bottom for the passage of the screw24. As illustrated in Figure 2, this supporting member has upwardlyprojecting ears 34 which are disposed on each side of and embrace theears 30 and are pivoted thereto by a pivot pin This member 32 is in theform of a housing or is formed to provide a transversely extendingopening 36, and within this opening is disposed a worm wheel 37internally screw-threaded, as at 38, and engaging the screw 24. Thisworm wheel 37 is operated by means of a worm 39 which is mounted insuitable bearing ears 40 formed on the member 32, the shaft of the worm38 carrying a crank 41 whereby this worm wheel may be operated, The worm24 at its lower end is pivotally mounted between cars 42 on a plate 43which is attached to the member 16 at its forward end, and thus it willbe obvious that as the crank 41 is turned the rotation of thescrew-threaded Worm wheel 37 which constitutes a nut will cause therotation of the housing within which this nut is disposed and which inturn will cause the rotation of the truck body at one end, the pivotpins 35 and 44 permitting the supporting plate 29 to be turned intoangular position with relation to the housing 32 as the. body iselevated, the dropping of the screw preventing all liability of theparts to jam or lock. Preferably a ball thrust bearing 45 is provided,as shown in Figures 10 and 11, which is disposed between the worm wheel37 and the top wall of the housing 32 and which-permits the freerotation of the gear wheel 37 without any chance of the gear wheelbinding under a minimum of power.

While I have illustrated the use of a plurality of end gates at thedischarge end of the body 21, I do not wish to be limited thereto as itis obvious that an ordinary end gate might be used and lifted to agreater or less amount and then as the body is tilted through theinstrumentality of the screw 24, the earth will gradually be dischargedfrom the body. It will likewise be noted that the body'overhangs thetruck so that the truck maybe backed up to a grave and the earth willfall into the grave.

This device, it-will be seen, will greatly facilitate the quick andeflicient filling of graves and does away with the hard manual laborusually requisite while relatives and friends of the deceased arepresent. The device may be operated with great ease and may be readilydrawn from grave to grave.

lVhile I have illustrated certain features of this device which Ibelieve to be articularly valuable, I do not wish to be limited theretoas it is obvious that many changes might be made in the details. ofconstruction and arrangement of parts without departing from the spiritof the invention as defined in the appended claims.

I claim 1. A grave filler comprising a truck, a body pivotally mountedupon the truck at its rear end for swinging movement in a verticalplane, the side walls of the body having upwardly and rearwardlyinclined rear ends, supporting irons mounted one be low another upon therear ends'of the side walls and projecting beyond the sidewalls andhaving upwardly turned 'rear ends, and a plurality of end gateshavingtrunnions engaging said irons, the end gates being thereby mountedfor independent removal and said gates normally closing the rear end ofthe body.

2. A grave filler of the character described comprising a truck havingsupporting wheels, a body mounted upon the truck and pivoted to thetruck at its rear end for movement in a vertical plane, the side wallsof the body having rearwardly projecting, upwardly extending hooks, anda 'series of end gates formed with trunni'ons engageable in said hooks,the end gates being of such width that the lower edge of one will bedisposed behind the upper edge of the adjacent end gate, one of saidtrunnions on each end gate being formed to constitute a handle wherebythe end gate may be raised and manipulated.

3. In a construction of the character described, a truck, a screwpivotally connected at its lower end to said truck, a body hingedlymounted upon the truck at one end, the other end having an aperture forthe passage of said screw, an internally screwthreaded worm wheelmounted upon the screw, a housing for said worm wheel, a manuallyoperable worm carried by said housing and engaging the worm wheel, theupper end of the housing being formed with two upwardly projecting,perforated ears, and a pillar block attached to the under face of thebody at its forward end and apertured for the passage of the screw, saidpillar block having ears coacting with the ears on theahousing andpivoted thereto.

4. A dumping wagon of the character described comprising a truck havingsupporting wheels, a body hinged at its rear end to the truck, theforward end of the body being free to move vertically upward and beingapertured, a screw pivotally connected to the forward end of the truckand passing up loosely through said aperture, an internally threadedworm wheel constitutinga nut and engaging said screw, a housing for theworm wheel carrying a worm engaging with the worm wheel and having acrank whereby it may be operated, the upper end of the housing beingformed with two upwardly projecting ears and having a central aperturethrough which the screw loosely passes, and a pillar block mounted uponthe under face of the body and having downwardly projecting earspivotally connected to the ears of the housing, said pillar block havingan aperture through which the screw looselypasses whereby to raise orlower the forward end of the truck.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

WILI-IELM KRONSBEIN.

